Ned- Thanks for the quick attention and detective work about the tcl-related bug in 2.6.5. I wouldn't have known how to track it down!
Regarding your comment: > I haven't been building and testing as much with 10.6's > built-in Tk 8.5 because it has been so problematic with IDLE. I did > verify that this doesn't show up with a 10.6.4 rc2 / Tk 8.5 build that I > have. Sorting out the Tcl/Tk situation with Python-2.6.4 is coming up quickly on my MacPy to-do list (I'm just setting up a new machine, as you may have guessed). I've experienced the weirdness associated with creating new windows in IDLE (with Apple's Py-2.6.1). I was not clear on whether this problem is unique to Apple's Python (in Snow Leopard), to their Tcl/Tk, or if it is a genuine Python/Tcl issue in the 2.6 series. Digging around, I've found a bug report: http://bugs.python.org/issue6864 I find the report a bit confusing; it gives me the impression that the problem is due to a not-yet-understood (as of Py-2.6.3) interaction between Python and Tk 8.5. But it sounds like you have a working setup with Py-2.6.4 and Tk 8.5. Do you have a recommended Tk setup that works? E.g., does ActiveTcl 8.5 solve this issue (with Py-2.6.4)? My web searching hasn't turned up any clear advice about this. I'll be relying on tkinter, not just for IDLE, but also for matplotlib. In the past I've also used wxpython for matplotlib, but the wxpython situation with Snow Leopard seems even more confusing than the tkinter situation! Thanks, Tom ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
